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Note: The main installer as well as patch 1.0.003 will appear to be frozen at some time. This is due to installation of huge files (eg music.dat), unless you receive an error message and\or your hard drive light stops flickering do not cancel the installation!
We have not tested if the Quickfix is save game compatible, please expect weird color combinations on the strategic map if you continue your game after it's application.

Using the attached torrent file (zipped because of attachment rules) requires the following steps:

Unzipping of the attached torrent file, 7-Zip is a free program that does that nicely

Run\Double Click the unzipped torrent file

Define the directory where the download should go

QuickFix (24th Mai 2012)

There has been a repeated bug in the Protestant Union end of round processing of characters. Extract the attached file into the mods\1648\data folder - save game compatible. For more details see here.

A missing entry in historic_events causes the game to crash in round 169 (Feb 1632). Extract the attached file into the mods\1648\data\text folder - save game compatible

Different sized unit cards were causing a interface breakdown. Extract the attached file into the mods\1648\data\ui folder.

It appears that there is a problem with the animation of destroyed (new) walls. We are working on it and suggest that in the meantime you delete\rename this folder if you experience a crash when destroying walls: ...\1648\data\settlements\north_european\settlements\large_city

General = Due to a drain on resources the error log has been set to 'error' - the lowest setting. To find errors like the one for the crash in the winter of 1620, kindly set your log to 'trace' and then compress and attach the error log after a crash.

Finding the log = it will be in the ...\Medieval II Total War\logs folder

Setting the log to trace = open Configuration.cfg (in the 1648 main folder) with Notepad. In the [log] section, remove the hash ( # ) in front of the trace line and add a hash in front of the error line, save. The log will become rather big, but compressing will reduce it to approximately 5-10% of it's original size.

General InformationTo start of with: this mod will be published in German first. Translation is being done bu tmay take some time.The mod 1648 is settled in the period 1618-1648 of the wars in Central Europe better known als the '30 years war'. The battlefields of this conflict are all located in the area of the Holy Roman Empire, therefore the map encompasses it's dominion and the directly neighboring areas (Copenhagen-Udine / Reims-Riga). The level of detail is guaranteed through 198 provinces and 24 factions. The pivotal aspect of the mod will be the struggle of the Kaiser with the counter reformation; protestant leaders being his main adversaries.Foreign powers enter the game as spawning factions like Siebenbürgen or as invaders like Sweden and France. Poland-Lithuania (the Western areas), Denmark, Swiss Union and the United Netherlands have their part on the map as well, although their influence in the beginning will be more passiv. The eighty years war between the Netherlands and Spanish Habsburg will also play a role in the overall war of that period.

The mod has followed new paths to make the game experience more intensive: new music and sounds, new textures, new units, new animations, new stratmap elements and more.

Our thanks go to the following teams, individuals and organisations:
- The teams of TWZone and TWForum for their friendly assistance and providing a moding 'home'
- Both communities for their support, ideas and friendly critic
- Musculus Maximus for his help with the forts and ground textures
- Dimitri Harkov and Addi for their ideas and help
- Rheumafuzzy and team SuS\OuO as well as repman and team DLV for ideas and help
- King Kong and Team TA for ground textures and those plush trees on the stratmap
- Banzai! for his groundwork on the wagon forts and the beheadings
- Xeryx for providing the AI mod
- the countless modders of TWCentre for their brilliant groundwork
- Wikipedia for the public pictures and text
- German television ARd and ZDF for their documentaries "Wir Deutschen" and "Die Deutschen"
- The authors of the books "Deutsche Volkslieder", "Deutsche Hausmärchen", "Deutsche Soldatenlieder", although this will be most likely posthumous
- The Housekeepr and team Machiavello for their idea of the named forts
- Team HRE and their inspiration for a "Reichs-Mod"
- AlphaDelta for the mod fKoC that taught us a lot
- Supply and forage system by Byg

Last edited by Gigantus; January 07, 2018 at 06:56 AM.
Reason: media updated

Re: 1648 - Der dreissigjährige Krieg

Well, this is the WIP (Work in Progress) forum, so it is still being worked on. Would be nice if we could release a beta before Xmas, but can't make any promises.
For more detailed development, please visit our German forum either at Total War Forum or Total War Zone.

Re: 1648 - Der dreissigjährige Krieg

We hoped to release the mod for christmas 09. But unfortunaly we got a crash last days. so i would say, in the beginning of 2010. status is ca. 95% of v1.0.

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Also some little points:

1) edited
2) also, the brigde at the delta of the weser, only appetizer not final
3) some great rivers like danube, rhine, memel, weichsel, oder, elbe, weser, spree/havel are "sea" so you are able to use ships to transport your canons
4) Catholic Liga and Protestant Union are non-player factions, they represent the "factions" who are to small to be a real player faction.
5) we know, there must be a little part of southern sweden a the map, if it be a "real" map. But we decided to stint this countryside. Its not necessary for story,so we use the "free slot" of a province for areas in HRE.
6) the little cities Alzey, Bingen, etc. are named forts with new Stratmap/RTS Models
7) the ships: Admiral Richard represents the ships in 1648, Admiral Karl the Vanilla...
8) We have a very big script, so we will tell you in Game two storys, the real story and the story that will be write new by the player.

9) I´m sorry, my english is getting worse in last years, since i must read more latin and ancient greek books than english.

Re: 1648 - Der dreissigjährige Krieg

xcellent work here! The last picture looks terribly fun and the campaign map looks intense (No rebels!!! So its a all out brawl). Also love the new units especially the rifle men and pike men. Great way to play a mod of Empires totalwar without having to buy the disc